Re: [PATCH v1] docs: describe how to quickly build Linux

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:38:07PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Downloading the sources using a full git clone
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> If downloading and storing a lot of data (~4,4 Gigabyte as of early
> 2023) is nothing that bothers you, instead of a shallow clone perform a
> full git clone instead.

As a minor segue, we know we can dramatically reduce the size of the stable
repo (and the stable clone.bundle) if we drop all branches and tags for old
EOL releases and move them to a separate repo (e.g. stable-eol.git).

I have suggested this in the past, but it's not a trivial change:

- it requires a fair amount of git work
- it may disrupt some of the build infra around the world still building EOL
  kernels (for whatever reason)

In my preliminary tests, we easily dropped the size from 4GB to under 3GB.

-K